The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 16, 1942, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9087. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1942 MEMB PRICE TEN CENTS ASSOCIATED PRESS GERMANS GAIN Expe ARMY MAN FORECASTS MOVEMENT Urges Protection Especial- ly to All Industrial Plants LOS ANGELES, Calif, July 16—An air attack on the Pa- cific coast, including the use of gas “may be expected at any time,” Lt. Col. E. K. Merritt, of the United States Army Air Force, told 350 industrialists to- day. Lt. Col. Merritt, Western Dis- trict Plant Protection Officer of the Air Forces, stressed protec- tion of all industries and pub- lic buildings and warned that the “enemy certainly is not go- ing to let our tremendous air- craft production continue on the coast without trying to put a crimp in it e o STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 16 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can | 68'%, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem | Steel 54%, Commonwealth and Southern 7/30, Curtiss' Wright 6%, ROMMEL'S GOALS African drive. mere than 2,200 years ago for his Persian campaign and the spacious harbor has been an important naval base since. The city of 682,000 stands guard over the Suez Canal, holds naval control of the Eastern Mediterranean. Britain’s great supply and repair docks and demili- tarized units of the French Fleet anchored there make Alexandria a rich war prize. International Harvester 49%, Ken- ||} necott 30%, New York Central 8%, Northern Pacific 5%, United States Steel 50%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are todays Dow, Jones averages: industrials 108.91, rails 25.70, utilities 11.91. The _W;;l;iflgiun Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON — Although the Navy reluctantly side-tracked con- struction of big battleships after | the spectacular airplane victory in| the battle of Midway, the Admirals | etill are slower than molasses n| building small boats to patrol the | Atlantic coast against submarines.| Almost every important wm‘} strategist, the President and Win-| ston Churchill down, has empha- sized the fact that the submarine menace was all-important, that we could not keep on losing merchant ships at the present rate. How-| ever, the navy still sticks to old- fashioned methods in building sub- chasers. The Navy's chief trouble seems to be the ordinarily laudable, but now antiguated, idea that it :s building small boats to last 25 year | when we are all hoping the war will | be over in at least four years, and when these small craft may be sunk in four months. For instance, one firm building sub-chasers was unable to get bronze screws, and wanted to use brass screws instead. The Navy objected. And four precious days were lost while the brass-hats ar- gued whether the sub -chase:s should be built with brass screws. It is true that brass screws in the hull of a ship corrode in salt water and wear off in about five years. But the war should be over in that time. In another case, a naval inspec- tor held up a sub-chaser because the inside cabins were not finished in the specified shade of grey. 1 SODA FOUNTAINS FOR WARSHIPS Details like this also cause delays in building larger ships. For in- stance, soda fountains and movie theatres are all carefully worked | out for cruisers and battleships. In! one case there was delay becnuse‘; the rods supporting bunks on a‘ (Continued on Page Four) Capital &1 Exype and headouarters of British and Allied comands, Cairo’s principal military significance is her location on the north end of the air ferry from America and of the overland supply high- ways. Lend-lease aid comes from the Gold Coast to Khartoum, goes down the Nile (hrough Cairo to the front, a short cut of the Red Sea ship route. Cairo’s 1,307,000 cosmopolitan population, a lush bit of Eurcpe in the hot desert, enjoyed an unparalleled war boom at the racetrack, polo grounds and night clubs before Marshal Rommel's War News Is Resented; Keichikan Takes Adtion | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 16 — | Suggesting relaxation of the strict | cerning news about the Battle of | Council meeting at which the members ex- rumors springing from lack of au- “We unanimously feel that Alas- fuses to Accept Pro- 1eleased more Alaskan news. We A T A WARSHIPS IN | the Ketchikan Defense | Gruening and Delegate to Congress pressed the belief that Alaskan | thentic news. . kan morale would be greatly im- posal fo Move | military censorship in Alaska con- | Alaska, EGYPI STAY has wired Gov. Ernest I | Anthony J. Dimond, following a morale is being undermined by the | The text of the telegram follows: French Government Re-| proved if the military authorities do not want any information which jwill give aid and comfort to the enemy, but feel that Alaskans VICHY, July 16—The French GoV- | should kncw as much as the en- ernment announced officially today“emy knows and that Alaskan pub- that it has informed the United |lications should receive the same States that the proposal of President | consideration as publications in the Roosevelt to move interned French | States concerning Alaskan news.” warships in Alexandria, Egypt to| The telegram is signed by C. M. Martinique in the Caribbean, had|archpold, Defense Council Chair- been "rejeqted as contrary "? the man of Ketchikan, honor and interests of France. Alaska newspapers have fre- exposing these dismantled warships "C%® which the Army has per- to attack, the British forces and the Mitted to be published in the President assume responsibility of States. the most extreme gravity with the ~ French government. Most. " (Continued on Page Three) U. 5. AIRMEN MAKEATTACK - IN DAYLIGHT Axis Base afiigngasi Raid- ed - Tobruk Is Also Under Attack CAIRO, July 16—Heavy bombers | of the United States Army Air Force | | made a daylight attack on . the Axis base at Bengasi _\'(‘swrdav.i | starting a large dock fire. The bombing is one phase of con- | tinuing the battle on the western | | desert. The RAF and Allied Airmen have also attacked Tobruk and the as- | sault on Bengasi indicates that. the fighting zone is still extended to the Axis armies “in force” at the fighting front. Both Tobruk and Bengasi are cn the far west of the fighting zone. | These attacks prevent large rein-| | forcements from going to the Egyp- tian front. | | | e e 'WORKERS ~ MACHINE GUNNED Nazi Raiders Atfack Men and Women Going fo Work, E. Midlands LONDON, July 16—German raid- ers, attacking in the East Mid- lands, swooped low and machine gunned men and women this morn- ing who were going to work. The bombers also attacked one town so heavily that fires were caused resulting in some property damage. Bad weather kept the RAF from raiding German held positions last |night for the second night in suc- cession, VICHY GIVES PROTEST T0 U, 5. AGAIN | Officially IFMes Friend- | ship with Free French ; in England VICHY, July 16 — The French Government has officially protesi- led to Washington against the as- signment of military representatives to DeGaulle’s Goverminent in Exile in England, declaring that th's “constitutes an attack on the Sov- ereignty of France.” Authorized sources declare that it is “inadmissable” for the “Ameri- {can Government which is rnain- taining normal relations with the | French Government, also to main tain relations with the rebe! force The United States Department of State announced on July 9 tha Admiral Harold R. Stark and Brig Gen. George F. Bolto had been assigned to consult in London witn |the national committee of th fighting Prench, headed by Gaulle, “on all matters relating to the conduct of the war.” The protest was announced pend ing publication of the French stand concerning French warships in- terned in Alexandria. The latte: |is understood to reject all propos- als to move the ships elsewhei |than in French territory on the | grounds that to do so will not co |form to French and German mistice terms, FOOTHOLD IN CAUCASUS ™ Jap Transorl Bombed Off Kiska, Alelians The first action picture of the fighting off Kiska, Alaska, rcleased by the Navy shows a Jap transport afive after being hit by a bomb from a U. S. Army plane over the Kiska harbor, are continuing their aerial assaults against the Japs at Kiska and Attu in the Aleutian chain, U. 5. Bombs Japs in Aleutians The Army and Navy ALASKA FT.YUKON a bombing attack on transports and escorting vessels off the Island of Agattu (1) and the others on enemy shore installations on Kiska (2), were announced by the Navy. "Bob” Ramspeck,fi Palion DRAFTAGE Of Government Workers, = LOWERING Given Big Party Honors BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, July 16—To the laymen of 47 states and the terri- tories, the name of Rep. Robert Ramspeck of Georgia, the new House Demdcratic whip, may not ring the bell of memory, but he probably is the best known man in Congress to more than 2,000,000 government workers. For all of the 13 years that he has been in Congress, Ramspeck nas been the patron saint of fed- eral employes. He has done more than any one man to bring them ecurity, assurance of promotions, alary increases and retirement pay Mainly through his efforts, with the help of such senators as O'Ma- honey and Mead, 90 percent of the government workers now hold their positions under the civil service merit system ‘and are free from tlose vast patronage upfreavals (Continued on Page Three) XIS MAKE NEW LINES IN EGYPT (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) In the Battle of Egypt, the west- tern world's other active war the- atre aside from the Russian con- flict, the Axis forces have made some rectifications in their posi tions befere El Alamein “partially” ablishing themselves on the al height, the Hill of Jusus, The Battle of FEgypt howevar plays second fiddle to that of Rus- sid — e - BUY DEFENSE BONDS ~ INDICATED Secrefary o—f_V—Var Stimson Makes Statement to Reporters WASHINGTON, July 168 tary of War Henry L. Stimson pressed the belief that young m: ried men and youths from 18 to 20 will have to be drafted before vic- tory Is won, Asked by reporters at the con- ference today whether the War | Department still believed there will |be many more men needed in the army, Secretary Stimson replied: “We have never seen a great war in which we didr’t find it necessary {to call up both of these classes.” | The War Secretary reminded the | reporters that some young married |men are already being drafted | Stimson also said he believed it will | be necessay to eventually lower the | draft age to 18 years cting Attack on Pacific Coast Anytime NAZIFORCES ADVANCEON TWO FRONTS ' Gains Conceded by Rus- sians - Stryggle On at Voronezh | STALINGRAD IS NOW THREATENED ‘EnemyAimsl’o—SpIitGroups of Defenders, Easing Way to Oil Fields (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) A German foothold some 20 miles inside the northern Caucasus re- gion, and another in the northern- most rim, have officially been con- ceded by the Russians, while the sanguinary struggle for Voronezh on the northern flank of the en- emy’s menacing bulge along the Don River, has attained a new de- ! gree of ferocity. Since launching its latest all-out ”(‘Il’urt against Russia on June 28, |the Germans have won effective | control of an additional 25,000 square miles of Russian territory, |somewhat more than the area of West Virginia. | German Threat Although not all the Russian | forces therein have been mopped (up and some are pressing behind !in two spearheads eastward of this | bulge, the Germans threaten to | crash through to Stalingrad, on the elbow of the Volga Rver less than 1200 miles away, elfectively splitting |the Caucasus and easing the way | for direct penetrations to the oil | bearing region farther south. | These Implications are found in |a Russian Communique admitting | the loss of Boguchar, just outside ! the north Caucasian Territory and also of Millerovo, 75 miles farther | south inside the territorv anA | the direct line of rail communiofs illuns DELWEPT MOSCUW ilia dwuscuVs an Advance Well On | The North Caucasus is one of ;lehn's principal agricultural re- | glons and if repeated Axis reports | are correct, the German advance | through Boguchar has carried well | into the southeast. ;v German advices last located the point of the northernmost of two | spearheads at Migulinsk, 160 miles | northwest of Stalingrad, the indus- trial capital of the lower Volga. e - B.B. FRIDAY | The second half of the Gastineau Channel Baseball League will be re- sumed tomorrow night at 6:30 o'clock, weather permitting, when the Beav- | ers meet Juneau. The postponed game of Tuesday, between the St. Louis Blues and | Missouri Mules, will probably be played sometime next week. The !Mules will therefore make their first |appearance Sunday against the | Beavers, Tip to Adolf: If you don’t see the handwriting on the wall soon, it'll be because you haven't a wall left standing.